
Choice "fall
trees" Haiku Thread October 31, 2010 ~ Editor,
Karina Klesko, US
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"Listening
to Vivaldi..."
Thirty-nine Sketchbook
Haiku Poets from fifteen countries composed one hundred
and seventy-one haiku to celebrate the season
represented in the "fall trees" Haiku Thread.
FIRST
CHOICE TIE
job
hunting...
a yellow leaf drifts
from branch to branch
# 01. Chen-ou Liu, CA |
teach
me leaf,
how to curl restless thought
autumn wind
26. Janice Thomson, CA |
SECOND CHOICE TIE
ups-a-daisy
shoulders high the child picks
the brightest leaf
# 136. Karin Anderson, AU
empty
playground
a sandbox full
of fallen leaves
# 133. Jacek Margolak
THIRD CHOICE
TIE
city park
the pointeur picks up
a copper beech leaf
# 74. Ralf Bröker, DE
oak leaves
their crunch more vivid
than their color
# 65. Diane Mayr, US
a chill
seeps into the gingko leaves—
she folds the day bed
# 10. Alegria Imperial, CA
The
chill in the gingko leaves juxtaposed with the
folding of the day is a very nice contrast.
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All of these haiku are
very nice. I like the variety of trees and learned about
some I had not heard about. Perhaps I have seen them.
The name liquidambar leaves sounds so beautiful and
rolls off the tongue like water.
liquidambar leaves
pile, too many hues
star blinking the sun
# 130. Karin Anderson, AU
Of course we cannot pass
up a 'sketch book" poem:
roosting
crow
so stark in the maple tree—
autumn sketch book
# 44. Alegria Imperial, CA
It appears we can look
forward to Bernard Gieske, Heike Gewi, and Cezar-Florian
for some lively Senryu:
falling leaves
back to bare essentials
Victoria's secret
# 81. Bernard Gieske, US
one mulberry
leaf
falls in my lap—
my husband aroused
# 17. Heike Gewi, DE
maple
leaves—
finally my mother decides
to dye his hair
# 147. Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă, RO
John Daleiden's was one
of many picturesque haiku:
a
stand of aspen
shedding golden leaves—
harvest moon
# 169. John Daleiden, US
late summer
storm—
a basket of walnuts scattered
under the tree
# 11. Marija Pogorilic, CR
teach me
leaf,
how to curl restless thought
autumn wind
26. Janice Thomson, CA
This is a
wonderful haiku!
turning
one twig at a time—
entries for memorials
# 28. Alegria Imperial, CA
from fuschia
to gold—
the same azalea
# 32.
Alegria Imperial, CA
shedding
leaves
a hundredth time—
the chestnut grove
# 36. Alegria Imperial, CA
Falling autumn leaves
nature’s recycling program
renewal — not death
# 45. Ignatius Fay, CA
roosting
crow
so stark in the maple tree—
autumn sketch book
# 44. Alegria Imperial, CA
crimson maples
chinook salmon
find their way home
# 55. Cara Holman, US
a
fragrant acacia
blossoming with loneliness—
beware the thorns
# 59. Marija Pogorilic, CR
oak leaves
their crunch more vivid
than their color
# 65. Diane Mayr, US
gradually
they vacate the tree—
maple leaves
# 71. Aju Mukhopadhyay, IN
maple
trees
midway through autumn
a softer red
# 67. Diane Mayr, US
*Altweibersommer—
the old man
asks for work
# 72. Ralf Bröker, DE
*Indian Summer
listening to Vivaldi
the painter mixes
red and brown
# 76. Ralf Bröker, DE
Fallen leaves perish
Within the earth’s gratitude
Towards the huge tree!!
# 84. Munia Khan, BD
I like the
third idea presented here. We all see the beauty and the
decay and fall, but the earth is joyful and revived.
dark days
maple leaves - the driveway
brightens with color
# 89. Bernard Gieske, US
mother's
song
by candlelight
autumn oak
# 88. Claire Everett, UK
Grasp one golden leaf
Kiss your hand in joy of life
Celebrate Autumn
# 99. Munia Khan, BD
This
is nice; the idea of a Celebration of the cycle
of life.
final
movement
the dead leaves
on the pond
# 102. Bouwe Brouwer, NL
autumn wind
the post truck disappears
into the fog
# 110. Bouwe Brouwer, NL
A
maple leaf
in the autumn breeze—
late love letter
# 114. Vasile Moldovan, RO
Chestnut Street—
the moon looks everywhere
for a squirrel
# 122. Vasile Moldovan, RO
**although
this verse contains personification, I love the wabi or
sadness, absence that this poem creates, very
interesting view from the Moon.
Contrapoint—
the light of a cornel tree
in the fir forest
# 124. Vasile Moldovan, RO
fall
trees—
visible on the top
a crow's nest
# 128. Sunil Uniyal, IN
wind and rain
on every pane
a fallen leaf
# 129. Jacek Margolak, PL
maple tree—
preparing the dusk
all day long
# 149. Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă, RO
Drops of
rain
over the sere leaves…
uncertain steps
# 137. Magdalena Dale, RO
red-letter day—
only the wind sweeping
the fallen leaves
# 151. Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă, RO
set free from
a month of house arrest—
a red leaf among the dead
# 163. Sasa Vazic, SR
the
roadrunner rests
in mesquite shadows
a coiled snake
# 167. John Daleiden, US
Thank
you for participating.
the old
cemetery
mounds of colorful leaves
flutter about
Karina Klesko, US
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